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Point by Point – Episode 2: Trump and Harris’ Diverging Immigration Policies, Converging Rhetoric

Point by Point – Episode 2: Trump and Harris’ Diverging Immigration Policies, Converging Rhetoric

by Erica Schmitt | Oct 16, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics

In this second episode of Point by Point, we take on the issue of immigration, a key topic in the 2024 presidential election. With insights from Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, an Associate Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, we break down former President...
Lawmakers push State Department nominee to crack down on human rights abuse if appointed

Lawmakers push State Department nominee to crack down on human rights abuse if appointed

by Lily Ogburn | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged Dafna Hochman Rand, presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, to crack down on accountability for human rights violations in both adversarial and...
Lawmakers and activists condemn China and recommend stronger action after U.N.’s review of China’s human rights violations

Lawmakers and activists condemn China and recommend stronger action after U.N.’s review of China’s human rights violations

by Lily Ogburn | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – Activists and lawmakers are calling on the United Nations to push for concrete changes in China’s treatment of Tibetans, Hong Kongers and the Muslim-minority Uyghurs after the global body released its universal periodic review, or UPR, of China on...
TRANS RIGHTS POST-SOTU: TEXAS COURT, HHS AND ADVOCATES RESPOND

TRANS RIGHTS POST-SOTU: TEXAS COURT, HHS AND ADVOCATES RESPOND

by Jenny Huh | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Living, State of the Union

WASHINGTON – A day after President Biden’s State of the Union, a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents for providing gender-affirming health care to...
More government-to-government dialogue needed to help human rights conditions in Southeast Asia

More government-to-government dialogue needed to help human rights conditions in Southeast Asia

by Yunita Ong | Mar 2, 2015 | Politics

WASHINGTON – When Binh T. Nguyen was younger, her father was killed in a re-education camp in communist-era Vietnam. Now as director of Human Rights for Vietnam PAC, Nguyen feels a strong obligation to advance the rights of fellow Southeast Asians. Nguyen is part of a...

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